Quiet as a shadow

Light as a feather

Quick as a snake

Calm as still water

Smooth as summer silk

Swift as a deer

Slippery as an eel

Strong as a bear

Fierce as a wolverine

Still as stone

“Irri and Jhiqui argued about Rakharo. “You are too skinny for him,” Jhiqui was …”

“The world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to ki…”

“Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees ha…”

“When I was a boy, I dreamt that I could fly, he announces. When I woke, I could…”